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Jun 20, 2012 | Hazardous Waste Landfills Waste

Even landfills don’t want fracking fluid waste

Two Kansas landfills near a fracking site have declined to take in the drilling fluid waste, citing a blanket ban on liquids that cannot be contained. Gale Rose from The Pratt Tribune in Pratt, KS writes the Pratt County landfill rejected an...

Jun 5, 2012 | Wastewater Water Water management Water pollution Water quality

Fracking in the Karoo linked to water pollution, says expert

A Free State professor says there is a high risk that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the Karoo could result in one of the biggest water pollution problems in the world, it was reported on Friday. “This is serious stuff. There will be...